a lesbian reads straight romance and is now even gayer
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Awesome, now i can learn how to use oil paint! Thanks, Georgia!
I feel like every popular straight romance book nowadays looks the same, they all have the same corporate-esque artstyle and obnoxious font. There's no variety anymore which sucks.
I’m gonna start a new business designing book covers, can’t be that hard right?
@@storieswithgeorgiamarie Honestly anything would be better than eye burning colour palettes and Impact font!
And don't forget the obligatory blue or pink or blue+pink colour just so we are clear that it has a girl and a boy and you know because girls like pink and boys like blue blah blah
@ Ugh yeah, they always gotta enforce those stupid gender roles lol
They genuinely are so ugly. And the arts style is not my cup of tea at all. And the colour combinations...no.
10 minutes in and i learn about beard rash and i would give ANYTHING to just un-learn it (i just found your channel and I'm loving it! great video!❤)
If I have to suffer you do too
i was JUST thinking, “i want to watch a Georgia video rn”
psychic!!!
Beard rash is a thing and you can get an infection if he doesn't keep his face clean.
I’m horrified
It just keeps getting batter, doesn't it 😭
i love these videos😭 i could NEVER read a straight romance book my god....
glad to be of service 🫡
as a lesbian who occasionally will attempt to do this i’m SAT
I have a read a few sapphic books lately that I felt were almost catering to straight people with how every other page they were commenting on how teeny tiny the femme mc was. I mean, it was literally everytime we were in the butch mc pov.
dang ive seen people saying the opposite
@ I suppose it just depends on the book
I've never seen that what books were those? Genuinely wanna know
I read Flawless last Summer (not a romance reader really, but a friend got it for me in in a cute Taylor Swift themed 'blind date with a book' sort of thing) and I had a TERRIBLE time omg. Not only did I have issues with all the stuff you mentioned, but the running thread of Rhett CONSTANTLY commenting on how cute and small and teeny tiny and petite and teacup sized Summer is and how he's just so big and broad and manly in comparison was just so egregious to me haha. Maybe it's just because I'm a tall gal myself and have always hated the misogynistic perception that men must be MASSIVE and their female partners must be MINIATURE, but it just absolutely riled me up. But I feel like that's the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this book haha! Also, as a straight woman, I can categorically say that for me, beard burn, or any kind of beard friction or texture is horrendous. Sensory nightmare. Painful, uncomfortable, a skincare nightmare lol.
These are my favourite book videos of yours!🥰 You taking one for the team is much appreciated 🤣
happy to help 🫡
I am actually writing a lesbian romance novel where they have a fake Honeymoon in Cancun LOL. It happens in an all inclusive hotel named Xcaret, I went there 2 years ago, amazing experience, the food is great, the staff is kind and helpful, the beach is beautiful, it has parks if you like activities, but also spas and pottery classes if you want to chill. The Hotel itself has great architecture, it has a child-free zone if that’s what you’re looking for. Not me doing so much promo, but I do want to go back so bad. Love your content ❤
Xcaret is on my shortlist of hotels but it’s soooo spenny!! trying to justify it to myselr
i think you would love this book rec. the spirit bares it’s teeth. good to see you georgia
Love this so much! Every time I read a straight romance, even when I enjoy it, I just feel so much gayer at the end. Like even the best straight couples in fiction are just so sad to me lol. What you were saying about the lesbian couple in Happy Place is so real! Being the only lesbian couple in a group of friends IS a different experience but straight writers don't understand that. I recently reading The Wedding People, which is kind of a literary coming of age romance, and I was so surprised that the lesbian character kind of acknowledges that, just fully calls her straight friends out on the fact that the thing they're whining about and acting like is a universal experience is very much a STRAIGHT experience. More of that in books, please!
As a lapsed straight woman (bi-enby) who loves beards (see:husband), BEARD BURN? Has to be a kink. Also, the whole "_____ bunny" (buckle bunny, chuckle bunny, snow bunny, etc) thing is somewhat common (maybe only USA wise), yet imo only misogynistic people really use it. 😅
Emily Henry's writing style usually works for me, idk y ppl get mad at someone saying it doesn't for you. That being said, Happy Place is my least favorite by far (miscommunication trope *doesn't work* on an 8yr marriage, signed smn in an 8yr marriage).
I like to read the occasional straight romance because I hate to say it but sometimes they're absolute bangers. I like these videos because they help me filter through the most popular ones to know which ones are worth considering reading! Also they're very entertaining to watch in a schadenfreude way 😅so thank you for your sacrifice!
How am I just now finding your channel?? My wife and I could not stop laughing... 😂 Going to need to binge to get some actual good reading recs because the last book sounded so freaking good!!!
Every man I’ve ever dated who has long hair has been a red flag and landed me a hefty therapy bill 😂
Tbh whenever i read straight romance books, im like "oh gosh, this girl has gone down too far, i can fix her, i swear" lmaoo
HAHAHA
I seem to recall that one of the duo of Christina Lauren is actually bi, so it's funny that the only book you enjoyed had a queer author
girl i'd love to hear you talk about romantasy, it's a lot, so maybe only like 2 or 3 books :D
These days I avoid straight romances as much as I can - real life is straight enough, tyvm -, but watching you read them is pretty entertaining😆
As a bi woman - yes, beard burn is a thing. No, it doesn’t feel good! It literally feels like rug burn. Usually it only happens with really rough kissing - or I guess intentionally? Lol
Would love to a see a video where you redesign covers of a book you love and a book you hate.
Oh honey, I like a good dark romance as much as the next girl but I can’t for the life of me read Twisted Love. I cringe every single page and DNF it at like 10%. And I can’t imagine it as a Netflix series.😂 I would recommend ACOTAR though! It gets better the more you go on!
I am straight but I definitely understand your problem with straight romance. I read Just For The Summer by Abby Jiminez and Funny Story by Emily Henry and didn’t care for either of them. Sometimes I feel like something’s wrong with me 😂
As an Emily Henry fan, I totally understand that her writing is not for everyone, I think it tends to verge on melodramatic. And Happy Place was one of the few romances where I wanted the couple to not get back together :D Also, beard rash is a thing, as a few people have already pointed out, and no it is not pleasant and when it happens I definitely don't feel like I'm "branded", lol
My all-time favorite lesbian book would be "The Midnight Lie," which is also a fantasy book with a lesbian subplot which would my first five star book so I would recommend "The Midnight Lie" which is book 1 of "the forbidden gods" series
I don't read a lot of romance, straight or otherwise, I recently got The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Linda Cohen Loigman as a BOTM selection, and found it adorable. It's a generational romance, going between 1920s Brooklyn and 1980s Florida with a couple who couldn't get it together when they were teenagers but have a second chance in their 80s. Well worth the read.
Oh I do love a second chance romance!
I get that some of these books are terrible but I love this series haha
I think many women over the years have learned to romanticize these problematic relationships because they thought it was the only way to deal with the inevitable oppression created by society.
If you want a good straight romance fantasy book, I remember enjoying Graceling by Kristin Cashore. It's been quite a few years since I read it and I have been meaning to reread it, but I remember it handling the characters and their chemistry really well as well as the fantasy world they live in and the plot being interesting. The only other straight romances I have read that I genuinely enjoyed have been manga. If you ever want to try that, my top recommendation is Snow White with the Red Hair. I genuinely love that series.
Also I learned about beard rash from this video and I would like to go back to before that.
I wholeheartedly agree with you about Emily Henry. I read Book Lovers and Beach Read (which I always confuse in my head because they sound the same and tbh they kind of are…except one is an editor and agent, and the other is authors LOL).
I just kept wondering…AM I READING THE SAME BOOKS AS EVERYONE? They’re so wildly forgettable and they’re needlessly long with pointless and distracting subplots.
Tried listening to Funny Story just for something to entertain my brain while walking my dogs and it just DRAGGED. Didn’t give a flying shit about anyone or anything. Ended up DNF-ing out of self-respect lol.
I really don’t get it. The banter isn’t terrible and the writing is competent but the characters and plots are little more than empty husks 😂😭
ACOTAR definitely needs to be read. The first book is 100% problematic but straight women eat it up. Love to hear your take. 😊
And a secret to share with the Internet, fantasy romance and period romance were the only straight romance I could handle when I was repressing my sexuality.
I was literally in the middle of talking about this channel when the notification came in.
what were you saying 👀👀
@storieswithgeorgiamarie I recommended you to my therapist starting to read lesbian fiction!
I just did some work on a fiction video (that I did NOT write) that mentions beard rash ... and not just on her face ....
Happy Place is my least favourite Emily Henry book, I found it really frustrating and the friends spoiled it for me. I did really enjoy Funny Story so if you ever do this again I’d be interested if you find that any better 😆
SUCH a frustrating read!! what do you mean you’ve been together 8 years but never learned how to communicate??
@ yep, I’m like you, hate a miscommunication trope when they could easily just TALK TO EACH OTHER
these are the most entertaining videos on youtube i love them and i actually rewatch them sometimes because georgia is too funny (also beard burn is a thing and it can get pretty ugly if the man has no concept of basic hygiene, and as a straight woman i can say that we do not want beard burn please clean yourselves, tho kissing a man with a normal beard is usually fine and has never scratched me)
nothing pisses me off than the miscommunication trope where the entire plot of the book could have been fixed with a single conversation it's so frustrating
Soo good to know which books to read and not to read. Also just finished reading you could be so pretty from Holly Bourne such a good book also with a small lesbian storyline
recommendation for the next video of this kind - Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert. i haven't read it as i too am a lesbian and i have plenty of other books i'd read before a straight romance, but my best friend (straight) looooves her books and says they're genuinely good
I actually under to get that for this video but they didn’t have it in the works when I went!
I love this series! Straight books 😅😅😅
I see all over tiktok people saying how good Happy Place is, i read it and i could not understand the hype??? i forced myself to finish it just to see if it got better but it didn’t
hell yes time to double my gayness
SOOOO TRUE re: Emily Henry and honestly idk what everyone loves about her books!! They are not cute or whimsical or happy romcoms they way they’re pitched, at least I don’t find them to be so. I gave her books two tries and both times I noped out of there lol. The first one I just was not enjoying at all, but the second one I actually did find had some rly annoying and also even problematic stuff in it 😅 but fr it sometimes rly feels controversial to say I don’t like her books in book spaces. I just think there’s so many books out there- even in just her genre- that are better written and more enjoyable and just. better lol 💗💜💙
people get so mad about it!! like I don’t think she’s objectively a bad writer, she’s just ✨not for me✨
😂😂😂😂 this absolutely killed me! 😂 I’m only at 10:53 so far and I’m dying! 😂 I wish I’d ranted for a while like this after I read the hunting Adeline series! That is an absolute 💩 show! I would love to hear you rant about it, it’s horrific! 🤦♀️😂 16:21 good god 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 I’m so with you here! Revolting! So weird! I’m so glad I’ve never been drawn to read this! 😂
21:21 I’ve had a beard rash on my chin from kissing when I was younger and it’s horrid! It hurts and it’s not sexy in the slightest! Might just be me! 😂🤷♀️
I can recommend another Christina Lauren book you might like, and that's Autoboyography
married to a man, and have never had beard burn thank god. i did not know people were into it at all, sounds very unpleasant
seriously- the flawless series was my biggest nightmare
thank u for telling me what to avoid xoxo
Can you recommend MORE sapphic books that's as good as Sunburn plz?
try rosewater by liv little!
I’d recommend Cuba before I’d recommend Mexico. Of course if you’re on a resort you should be fine. Canadian here: I’ve heard so many great things about Cuba, just a thought. I’m reading the second book
From Emma R Alban, you’re the problem, it’s you.
just an idea but you could make a video where you read lesbian fantasy books ☺️ i know you dont really read fantasy but it could be fun if you up to it
Honestly that’s how Buckle bunnies r treated irl a lot not saying it’s ok just giving insight 😵💫
I agree with rhubarb! also as recs for future videos you might like books by chloe liese
Straight girl but I can’t stand romance books, and I’m not a huge fan of men atm so very happily single 😂 romance books make me cringe so badly, you’ll find me in the mystery thriller/crime/non fiction section of the book shop!
Ps twisted love sounds horrendous, even Christian Grey had a therapist and knew he was f*cked up!
How many videos like this are you planning to do
as many as people watch
Just commenting for the algorithm 🤎
About fantasy books: don't do it to yourself, it's beating a dead horse at this point. They're not good and notoriously so, you'll just waste your time
new georgia vidfeo YIPEEEE
I had no idea Christina lauren was two people 😮 I've read the unhoneymooners by them and thought the writing and romance was very good except for the third act conflict where the mmc acts like a jerk imo
throwback to high school when i was forced to read twisted love by my bff and i had to suffer thru that badddd baddd writing and the ml boring personality
What is wrong with the straights?
so many things, poor little guys
Correct pronunciation! At least to my ear.
Paradise Problem was published in 2024 so Elon had long since cemented himself as, well, Elon. It sounds like the author borrowed from reality. (i think i want to check that one out)